On two separate occasions I shot a rattlesnake that was about to strike someone I was dove hunting with.

First time I was about 15 hunting with my dad and I noticed he was about to step on a silent rattlesnake. I yelled snake run! And shot it as it was striking and he had just got out of range.

15 years later, hunting with a friend and the same thing happened, though he started running in a circle around it for some reason until I had to yell again to run AWAY from it!